He's not really the same breed. This point was driven home to me early on when I saw all the democratic senate candidates speak at a small venue at Northwestern in 2004 during the primaries and Gery Chico, Daley's chief of staff and former schools chief, really stood out as the classic chicago politician, complete with over-the-top pandering and planted cheering crowd. Obama, on the other hand, was actually fairly unremarkable and had a presence more in line with most...

Are you asking why it's a problem that you express incredulity to the suggestion that there could be contexts in which the interests of a specific business or industry could be detrimental to a broader set of interests?

Your post relied on an assumed connection with "bad[ness]" and expressed incredulity that conditions desirable to a specific interested party could be considered "bad," meaning that the opposite quality, "good," is somehow implicitly involved.Case in point. It's not "bad" or good without context and, therefore, using that as an argument on its own is nonsense.

Questions and arguments are not people and, therefore, attacks on them are not personal attacks. Smart people can make stupid arguments and ask stupid questions. Lundy is wrong. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's a personal attack.
That the mods can't distinguish between attacks on arguments and personal attacks is why it's strange that anyone here would believe there ever would be reasonable moderation here.